American Sign Language — noun Date: 1960 a sign language for the deaf in which meaning is conveyed by a system of articulated hand gestures and their placement relative to the upper body … New Collegiate Dictionary

American Sign Language — noun a sign language for the hearing impaired using hand gestures, developed in the United States. Also, Ameslan … Australian English dictionary

American Sign Language — Amer′ican Sign′ Lan guage n. ling. a visual gesture language, having its own semantic and syntactic structure, used by deaf people in the U.S. and English speaking parts of Canada Abbr.: ASL • Etymology: 1960–65 … From formal English to slang

American Sign Language — a visual gesture language, having its own semantic and syntactic structure, used by deaf people in the U.S. and English speaking parts of Canada. Abbr.: ASL Also called Ameslan. [1960 65] * * * … Universalium